Interrogatories
When was the last time you went to the dentist? How was it?
What is your favorite branch of science?
What critically acclaimed movie did you hate?
The Twitter Emitter
Remember when America liked John McCain's foreign policy prescriptions so much that we didn't elect him President?
— Firestarter in Chief (@docrocktex26) March 4, 2014
Funny, I don't remember @SenJohnMcCain being so concerned about democracy when Al Gore was elected POTUS in 2000.
— Picasso Kat (@Picassokat) March 4, 2014
The biggest difference between the left and the right? When Bush was president, nobody was preaching about shooting or lynching him.
— David Lubar (@davidlubar) March 4, 2014
RT reporting that Russian troops are giving Ukrainians puppies and foot massages. Developing….
— TBogg (@tbogg) March 4, 2014
If Obama wants to handle Russia like a real leader he'll look into Putin's soul & do nothing when he invades Georgia. #p2
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) March 4, 2014
Lindsey Graham: "Russia invaded Georgia in 2008. Then Benghazi happened. And now Ukraine. So clearly, it's all because of Benghazi."
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 4, 2014
I think it's incredibly hard for Americans of all political stripes to view events abroad as not being fundamentally about us.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 4, 2014
Relax, guys, it's all cool. George W Bush looked into Putin's dreamy, manly eyes and declared him quite all right.
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) March 4, 2014
As a Jewish person, I take my political advice exclusively from people angling for a quick Rapture so Jesus will return and I'll go to hell.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 4, 2014
Sad night. The loss of Steve Stockman is a defeat for lazy and incompetent grifters everywhere. #TXSeb
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 5, 2014
On This Day
In 1616, the Catholic Church banned Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. No science allowed!
In 1623, the first Colonial alcohol temperance law was enacted in Virginia.
In 1624, the upper class was exempted from whipping by legislators in Virginia. I think that law is still in effect.
In 1770, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers opened fire on a crowd of colonists who were taunting them, killing five, not giving them a chance to taunt them a second time.
In 1845, Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the western U.S. The Camel Corps didn’t work out, due to the animals scaring the horses and also to their nasty dispositions (kind of like working with a Republican Congress now).
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being withdrawn from banks.
In 1933, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
In 1946, Winston Churchill used the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
In 1982, the Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus. It lasted 57 minutes, longer than the expected 32.
In 2004, Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government after she had sold off her Imclone Systems Inc. stock right before the price took a major dive. If she were a man she probably would have gotten a slap on the hand.
Born on This Day
1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
1658 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
1637 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch landscape painter and inventor (d. 1712)
1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
1743 – Jean-Simon Berthélémy, French history painter (d. 1811)
1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1870)
1829 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (d. 1905)
1830 – August Friedrich Siegert, German genre painter (d. 1883)
1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
1870 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Russian born Marxist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1894 – Henry Daniell, English actor (d. 1963)
1908 – Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975
1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
1933 – Tommy Tucker, American rhythm and blues singer and pianist (d. 1982)
1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor
1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress
1947 – Tom Russell, American singer/songwriter
1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer
1952 – Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1956 – Teena Marie, American singer (d. 2010)
1957 – Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall and Von Südenfed)
1962 – Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Died on This Day
1534 – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1592 – Michiel Coxie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1622 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1671 – Cornelis van der Schalcke, Dutch landscape painter (b. 1611)
1695 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1720 – Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish painter (b. 1657)
1755 – Pier-Leone Ghezzi, Italian painter and caricaturist (possibly the first professional one) (b. 1674)
1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1860 – Alfred de Dreux, French painter (b. 1810)
1876 – Marie d’Agoult, [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt’s children (b. 1905)
1880 – Edouard Henri Girardet, Swiss painter and engraver (b. 1819)
1895 – Charles Édouard Edmond Delort, French painter (b. 1841)
1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
1967 – Mischa Auer, Russian-born American actor (b. 1905)
1980 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
Today is
Multiple Personality Day
National Cheese Doodle Day
Namesake Day
Saint Piran’s Day
8 hour day (Australia’s Labor Day)
Dr. Doolittle Day
Mother – in – Law Day
Healing From the Inside Out Day
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